Microsoft's TechEd North America 2014 is in a hot and humid Houston, TX this year, and it kicks off with a keynote presentation on Monday. We're expecting it to be all about the cloud, with new features for Azure, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Online all on the cards.

If I was suggesting an IT solution to anyone, it would not be windows as of 2014. I don't care how "great" MS' cloud solutions are, they still rely on having connectivity, which is a single point of failure that I can't get past.

If I was suggesting an IT solution to anyone, it would not be windows as of 2014. I don't care how "great" MS' cloud solutions are, they still rely on having connectivity, which is a single point of failure that I can't get past.

They have many offerings to allow IT to setup their own private cloud. SharePoint and many other Microsoft products can be cloud hosted or setup on premises using existing resources.

Microsoft's TechEd North America 2014 is in a hot and humid Houston, TX this year, and it kicks off with a keynote presentation on Monday. We're expecting it to be all about the cloud, with new features for Azure, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Online all on the cards.

If I was suggesting an IT solution to anyone, it would not be windows as of 2014. I don't care how "great" MS' cloud solutions are, they still rely on having connectivity, which is a single point of failure that I can't get past.

Something tells me if you're this ignorant, you're not selling Windows-based solutions anyway. Microsoft's products are designed to make private, self-hosted clouds. The stuff Microsoft hosts is a service that you can buy from them if you want. Otherwise, Windows Server, Exchange, SCCM, etc. all work in-house too.

To an engineer who just "wants software it to work," how is the "cloud" any different from the client/server models of the 1970s and before? And, do we see this model reversing in say 10 years time and the trend towards more "everyone for themselves" approach to storage, computing, etc.?

Its data time guys, I've crossed another hurdle, now I can store Domegemegrottebyte of data in 100 bytes file. It applied practically. It is the biggest achievement of the DATA STORAGE & HANDLING technology ever.